Struck by powered moving object
The employee stepped out of manhole and onto the slope and was struck by a slope tractor traveling down the slope.
Greenbrier Minerals, LLCOperator
Controlled by Coronado Coal LLC
MSHA Operator ID: 0129274
- Fatalities
- 3
- Total incidents
- 443
- Mines on record
- 16
- Years on record
- 2013–2026
Safety benchmark
Recorded fatalities relative to other operators with a fatal MSHA history. Percentile is computed across the 739 operators with at least one recorded fatality.
More recorded fatalities than 89% of operators on file.
Position when operators are sorted by recorded fatalities.
Industry mean: 1.6 fatalities per fatal-history operator.
This operator
3
Industry mean
1.6
Industry median
1
Peers at similar incident volume
- MLC6fatal462 total
- Mettiki Coal WV, LLC3fatal424 total
- Greenbrier Minerals, LLCthis operator3fatal443 total
- Lodestar Energy, Inc.2fatal431 total
- New Enterprise Stone and Lime Co., Inc.1fatal427 total
Methodology: percentile and rank computed across MSHA operators with at least one recorded fatality. Industry mean is the average across that same population. Peers are sampled by closest total-incident count, regardless of fatality outcome.
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Top causes
- POWERED HAULAGE3 fatalities · 28 non-fatal
- FALL OF ROOF OR BACK121 non-fatal
- HANDLING OF MATERIALS98 non-fatal
- SLIP OR FALL OF PERSON57 non-fatal
- HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)45 non-fatal
- MACHINERY23 non-fatal
Incident timeline
2026
1
2025
19 (1f)
2024
22
2023
37
2022
25
2021
22
2020
21
2019
41
2018
41
2017
51 (1f)
2016
45 (1f)
2015
74
2014
35
2013
9
Mines on record
- Saunders Preparation PlantWV
- Elk Lick TippleWV
- Midland Trail Mine No 2WV
- Toney Fork Surface MineWV
- Mountaineer Pocahontas No 1 Prep PlantWV
- Pocahontas MineWV
- MOUNTAINEER POCAHONTAS NO 1 MINEWV
- Mountaineer Pocahontas No 3 MineWV
- Powellton #1 MineWV
- Kuhn RidgeWV
- Lower War EagleWV
- Pollock Knob Surface MineWV
- Muddy BridgeWV
- Eagle No 1 MineWV
- Elklick Surface MineWV
- North Fork Winifrede Deep MineWV
Fatalities under this operator
3 recordedFall from machine
Truck bed turned over while dumping after load failed to clear from bed. This caused the truck to tip up on passenger side tires-truck did not turn over or sustain any damage. Material was wet and damp and temp. was cold. Driver chose not to use bed treatment station provided by company. Trailer appeared to be loaded toward the front. Driver chose to jump from truck.
Caught in, under or between running or meshing objects
There were no witnesses to the event. Employee was found with right arm caught by the hold up roller of the remote discharge of the #1 conveyor. When found by crew members, employee was not responsive. Employee was transported to the surface when employee was pronounced deceased.